The Tea Party, One of the Greatest Feats of Propaganda Ever Seen

[upstatecajun]

The Tea Party movement swept across America, thus placing their party in the political spectrum as a force to be reckoned with. What began initially as a grassroots movement by Ron Paul, quickly shifted into a corporately owned entity.





Lately, we don’t hear claims of the Tea Party being a grassroots movement. Ideologues plague the once grassroots movement. GOP freshmen are now in House of Representatives and holding power of John Boehner. When the House Speaker accepted negotiations with the President on the budget, Boehner got spanked by the Tea Party then quickly withdrew his agreement.

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[ingac70]

1. The Tea Party did NOT begin with Ron Paul!

It began with Rick Santelli.... It has NEVER been grassroots.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zp-Jw-5Kx8k

http://www.cnbc.com/id/29283701/Rick_Santelli_s_Shout_Heard_Round_the_World

Love the revisionist history.

[proud2BlibKansan]

3. Actually it began with the Koch brothers

Santelli just coined the phrase.

[ingac70]

4. He sounded the "alarm" that day, he brought it to the fore....

but there is no doubt there was collusion beforehand. The teabaggers have openly thanked Santelli for "starting it all".

[movonne]

9. We all should call it what it is...Kochroacher tea party..these slobs

they picked up off the street to run for offices was bought and paid for by the Kochroachs...it is not a movement it is a commodity...

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[Mojeoux]

12. Before it was called Tparty, it was loudmouths at town halls. "Protesting Heathcare"

I tried to out-yell them and I felt dirty after. They were an orchestrated mob of dooshes.


I still don't understand why the "Don't taze me Dude!" rules of public decorum were not applied at these events.

[ProfessionalLeftist]

13. True. The Tealiban was started by the Koch Bros ... Anything that says otherwise...

... Is bullshit propaganda.

HERE: http://www.americanprogressaction.org/issues/2011/04/koch_brothers.html

STUDY that document carefully!

[Mister Ed]

14. And the Tea Party website names were reserved days BEFORE Santelli's on-screen rant.

The whole thing was orchestrated. Total Astroturf.

It was designed to re-brand and re-energize the demoralized Bush base. And it worked.

[L. Coyote]

15. It began with the necessity to disassociate the right from George Bush, aka Republicans

and it worked like a charm. The heavy yoke of Dumbo was overlooked, and the Rejublicans made an outstanding comeback even though they had driven the world economy into the ditch.

[baldguy]

2. It's a simple con job.

And it's followers are the chumps.

[inna]

5. Ron Paul? check your facts

[walerosco]

6. yep

the original tea party was started by Paulbot against the TARP bill and 911 conspiracy. And just like any populist grassroot movement was hijacked by the establishment (see Sarah Palin who if i remember correctly supported TARP)

[socialist_n_TN]

7. Well it helps if you have the whole ........

fucking "liberal" media behind you documenting your every move AND BILLIONS of dollars in capitalist money bankrolling you.

It's not grassroots and it never has been. We'll see what kind of staying power it has, ESPECIALLY when the money behind it decides that it's no longer profitable.

[kentuck]

8. I always thought the Tea Party...

were so embarrassed by George W Bush and the huge debt they had run up that they no longer wanted to be associated with the Republican Party because they thought the Republican Party was doomed after George W Bush and the economic collapse. They really saw no way for the Republican Party to recover so they wanted to keep it alive as the "real" Republican Party and they would call it the Tea Party or something. Once they saw that the Republican Party was not only going to survive but thrive, they rejoined the Party with their new ultimatums.

[brewens]

10. A lady came up to my booth at a gun show all dressed up in

her red, white and blue costume. She had a pin proudly proclaiming herself to be a Tea Party Republican. I proudly sucked up some of her money. I call it, "Operation Exploit The Gunbaggers". My girlfriend doesn't like that though.
The Tea Party crap really just became last years Republican party slogan. Actually it allowed the Republican party to work the real wack-jobs and maintain a little distance.
I was hoping for a Tea Party rally in my area on the 15th but there isn't one. I was going to make a shirt that said, "Stop The Bribery/Corporations Aren't People" on the front, and "Money Is Not Free Speech" on the back. I wouldn't have done anything to show I wasn't otherwise a teabagger. I would have just liked to have seen if that on a shirt would have drawn any hostility. I know there are a small percentage of Tea Party people that would agree with me about the corporations and banks. It would be interesting to see if any would stick up for me if I was attacked by Republican teabaggers.

[Bluenorthwest]

16. They are the Republicans. There is no Tea Party.

Are they going to nominate a candidate? Do they have a national convention coming? What is the platform of this imaginary Party?
They are Republicans who knew that name had been tainted and so they got a new one. I call Republicans Republicans, even when they dress up in Minuteman drag. Even when they ask to be called something else, I call them what they are. Republicans.

[Angry Dragon]

17. The Regressive Party